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How Do We Know What Dinosaurs Looked Like?

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    Scientists believe .that dinosaurs first appeared on the earth about 180 million years. ago, and died out about 60 million years ago. This is long before human beings appeared on earth, and also before such animals as dogs, rabbits, horses monkeys, or elephants. Everything we know about dinosaurs
    and everything we will ever know — comes from fossils. These are remains which these creatures left in the earth. But there are many different kinds of fossils.
    The most common fossils are petrified remains of what were the hard parts of their bodies — bones, teeth, and claws. Scientists can study these remains and from them reconstruct how the whole body of the dinosaur was built!
    Sometimes, petrified tendons and skin are found, and this provides even more clues. Fossils can also be trails or footprints that were made in wet sand or mud that hardened into stone over the ages. From these, it is possible to tell how the dinosaurs walked and whether it was on two legs or four. And the rarest fossils of all from this time are dinosaur eggs.
    In this way we can tell that the Brontosaurus was a monster from 20 to 25 meters long and weighed about 38 tonnes. We know it lived in swamps and was a plant-cater. And we also know that a dinosaur called Allo-sauriis had sharp teeth and powerful claws and it fed upon Brontosaurus and oilier plant-eaters. You see, scientists have found, among the broken and deeply scratched bones of Brontosaurus— fossil teeth of the Allosaurus!
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    Oneperson2  

    answered 3 years ago

      Dinosaurs (or the bones of dinosaurs) have been present on this earth for more than 200 million years, but no one had ever heard of them until 1841, simply because there was no name or definition of them as a group of fossils. This was 165 years after the first published illustration of a dinosaur bone and many years after the first dinosaur was named and described, Dinosauria, comes from deinos, the Greek for terrible and sauros, Greek for lizard. These fossils are a great source of getting a close picture of what dinosaurs might have looked like.
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      M_mirza  

      answered 3 years ago

        We dont really know what they look like because we have no evidence exept there bone's but we have no evidence on what colour or type of skin they had all we know is what the shape of them are
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        Guest  

        answered 6 months ago


        By putting their bones back together like a puzzle. Some scientist know how muscles and tendons would be positioned in order for the animal to walk, move, bite etc. Taking that in to account and then covering the entire animal with skin, we have a pretty close representation of what the animal looked like. Coloring is another issue. The dinosaurs could have been pink with green dots. It is most likely to assume that they would have blended in with the surroundings and were probably brown, grey and green. No one knows for sure at this day and time. Scientist are making new discoveries all the time. Maybe they will find some colored dino skin in the future.

        Did you know that dinosaurs are mentioned in the Bible. They are not called dinosaurs but the behemoth and the leviathan. Its in the book of Job chapters 40 verse 15 - 24 and chapter 41 verses 1 - 10. Some version say they are an elephant or an alligator but if you remember the elephant's tail it is very small not like the tail of a cedar that the King James Bible says it is like. Then in verse 19 of chapter 41 it says the leviathan spits fire from its mouth, I know that alligators can't do that. Just thought you would like to know.
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        Nannaknows  

        answered 7 months ago

        We know what dinosaurs look like by
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        Guest  

        answered 3 months ago

          By there fossils
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          Guest  

          answered 3 weeks ago

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